India has 103 active or defunct spacecraft and 114 objects categorised as ‘space debris’ in orbit and has embarked on research to reduce such fragments from outer space.  
   
“Presently, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has taken up research activities to study the feasibility and technologies required to undertake active debris removal (ADR),” Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh recently told parliament.  

According to Orbital Debris Quarterly News issued in March by NASA, India had 103 spacecraft, including active and defunct satellites, and 114 space debris objects, including spent rocket bodies orbiting the earth. So, the country has a total of 217 space objects orbiting the earth.